User's Manual

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Using the Find Dialog Box to Select Items for Operations
There are various operations in 3Com Network Director for which you
must first select a list of items to perform the operation on before you
may proceed, such as selecting a list of devices that are to have their
configuration backed-up, or selecting a list of links to disable an event for.
These operations all use the Find dialog box to allow you to select items
for the list.
When launched from within an operation, the Find dialog does not act as
a navigation tool or launch point for operations, and the Find: list only
includes item types that are appropriate to the operation being
performed.
Finding Devices
The Find: Devices option allows you to find devices on your network. In
addition, when the Find dialog box is launched from Edit > Find or the
toolbar, some searches will also find clouds, subnets and device groups
on your network. The following Search by: options are available:
Table 32 Search by: Options
Search by:
Option
Description
Name Finds devices whose Custom Name, DNS Name or System Name
matches the entered name.
When the Find dialog is launched from Edit > Find or the toolbar this
also finds matching clouds, subnets and device groups.
You may use wildcards in the value that you enter in the Name: field.
User name Find devices that are logged on to the network using 802.1X whose
user name matches the entered user name.
You may use wildcards in the value that you enter in the User name:
field.
IP address Finds devices that have an IP address that matches the entered IP
address.
When the Find dialog is launched from Edit > Find or the toolbar this
also finds subnets whose IP address matches the entered IP address.
You may use wildcards in any of the four fields of the IP address.
If you use wildcards, or leave one or more fields of the IP address blank,
and a device has more than one IP address that matches the entered IP
address then the device will be listed multiple times in the results table,
once for each matching IP address.